We Have a Beautiful Mother

We have a beautiful mother

Her hills

are buffaloes

her buffaloes

hills.

 

We have a beautiful

mother

Her oceans

are wombs

Her wombs

oceans.

 

We have a beautiful

mother

Her teeth

the white stones

at the edge

of the water

the summer

grasses

her plentiful

hair.

 

We have a beautiful

mother

Her green lap

immense

Her brown embrace

eternal

Her blue body

everything

we know.

 

Alice Walker

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